Freelance war correspondent Michael Yon doesn't explain the use of this teepee in Afghanistan except to say that it's a memorial to an American unit's war dead. MY's apparently in need of money to continue. He's still worth it. I'm still sending him some. You should too. (Uh, actually he does explain the teepee. The unit is the 2nd ID, the "Indian Head" division.)
The problem is that Yahoo, the host, and Movable Type, the blog software, parted ways earlier this month, which meant that Yahoo would no longer support MT. I ignored it, figuring I could go my merry way with MT. Then I axed TypePad as the comment vetter and, suddenly, I couldn't get back into MT to work my magic. Come to find out that TP owns MT. Good grief, how did I miss that? TP said they couldn't help. MT tried to pass the buck to Yahoo. I kept pressing MT. It took six hours but they finally found a solution. I'll be making the switch as soon as I can. More on that when it's ready to go down.
UPDATE: Indeed, he sued and the university fired him. No surprises here. Said Chancellor Kent Hance on ESPN: "When you sue your boss, it's not going to turn out well." Heh.
Yep. Well, I guess to them it makes sense. After all, their meteorology department (the only one in Texas that graduates weather warriors) is wholly in the bag with AGW. So it figures other Aggie researchers would be looking for solutions. But eliminating farmland? That seems a little extreme. The ag industry lobby apparently is not amused and has set Barry's ag secretary to backfilling. He'll turn this sucker around. You betcha.
One of the great things about the Web is that I usually learn something new every day. Like this: that the great grandson (the only son of the only son of the only son) of the famous Confederate cavalry general was a B-17 pilot in World War II, who perished after being shot down in 1943. Since he had no children, the line came to an end in the flak-riddled skies over Nazi Germany. Amazing.
I only started using it to eliminate all the comment spam I was receiving. We'll see if the spam becomes a problem again. I expect some will come back. Hope not too much. If I have to go back to vetting, however, it sure won't be with TypePad. It is a worthless piece of junk.
More Dionysian than his late grandfather's (which he has never seen) which was rather severe. Moreso even than mine ever was, even at his age. (Years ago I lost the flourish and went with a quick, neat signature that could be done in a hurry.) Interesting development, this. Or maybe it's just that the Y on the end of the surname encourages a loop and a swoop.
Other than for the usual reasons of its own ineptitude. Well, No Good Boyo has the explanation. Imagine you are an FBI agent on the receiving end of this: "Hello, I am a senior Nigerian banker. I have important information for you..."
Another super bird photo from Snoopy the Goon on his recent Arizona trip. The fellow is good!
UPDATE: ON the other hand...
He's emailing our happy group via his Blackberry on an unknown somebody's stray wireless signal and recharging periodically at a child's home a few miles away where power has been restored. Fortunately, he has a fireplace and plenty of wood. And a gas grill to cook and boil water on. It not being the height of summer, even the refrigerated foodstuffs may be able to hold out a while longer.
UPDATE: After 3.5 days, the power was restored, and Claude is kicking himself, once again, for failing to follow-through on his old plan to invest in an emergency propane generator. Still happy, however, to live out in the quiet boonies with the deers and the bears.
An Afghan Shi'ite Muslim takes a break as others flagellate themselves with chains during an Ashura procession inside a mosque in Kabul--Reuters. Still, it's peanuts compared to the rich-boy PantyBomber, so consumed by his submission to Allah that he wanted to take 289 others with him into martyrdom.
On the other hand, Shami has ten million dollars of his own money to invest in his campaign. Consequently he's getting a lot of media, free and otherwise. They all quote him saying he's from Palestine, wherever that is. It's not the Texas Palestine. Apparently he's from the West Bank, though no one is sure because he doesn't call it that.
He tells the American Task Force for Palestine, which seems to think he's a Muslim though some Texans think he's a Quaker, that he's for peace and love and equality in the Middle East. Debbie Schlussel thinks he's a clandestine Jihadi in an anti-Semitic package. She cites as partial evidence this column he wrote two years ago for the Houston Chronicle in which he implies that the nasty Israelis are forcing the poor Palestinians to ration water "while Jewish settlers cultivate lush lawns and fill their swimming pools." That's libel enough for me to be glad that Shami's chance of election is exactly nil.
UPDATE: The daily's Ken Herman did a job on Shami: "The downtrodden minority/victim role is particularly unattractive on a guy who lives in a 24,585-square-foot-home like Shami does."
More of Snoopy-the-goon's photographic work fromhis recent trip to Arizona.